The incredible yoghurt pot balancing dog

They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks and, in the case of Cindy the spaniel, that may well be true.

Because the eight-year-old pedigree King Charles has got so good at balancing things, her owner says he has run out of tricks to teach her.

Cindy can hold beer mats, CDs and even yoghurt pots perfectly still on her paws and nose.

Just as impressively, and bizarrely, she can hold a golf ball on a spoon in her mouth, while perching a yoghurt pot on her head. All this takes place while Cindy is, apparently, in a canine trance.

The man responsible for this remarkable talent, owner Ron Bucknall, said: ‘I can do tricks with this dog that you’d have to go through another 1,000 dogs to find.

‘I’ve had dogs all my life but I’ve never come across one like this before.’ You don’t say, Ron; you don’t say.

Cindy’s skills are all the more astonishing because she’s not in the best of health â she has a weak heart and arthritis, and her legs are strengthened by steel implants. Still, that doesn’t stop her rolling on her back and playing dead at her owner’s command.

Mr Bucknall, 75, of Wednesfield, West Midlands, bought Cindy when she became ‘too much’ for her previous owners and their young family.

He said the dog goes into a ‘trance-like state’ when performing her amazing balancing feats.

The Bucknalls believe they have run out of things to teach their talented pet who, they say, could have been even more of an animal star, believe it or not.

Mr Bucknall added: ‘If it weren’t for her bad legs, I think we could have made Cindy the most amazing performing dog ever.